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Visionary Historian Howard Zinn Dies at 87

Howard Zinn, who has been a mainstay of Consortium publishers for the last decade, died January 27 at the age of 87. Publishers Seven Stories Press, City Lights Publishers, South End Press, and AK Press have all published books by Zinn (view a complete listing here). Best known for his seminal book A People's History of the United States, Zinn was working on the multi-faceted documentary project The People Speak, in partnership with The History Channel and several noted celebrities, before he died. The History Channel first aired The People Speak on December 13, 2009, and plans to re-air the program in 2010. To commemorate this achievement, Seven Stories Press published the second edition of Voices of a People's History of the United States in November 2009.

Voices of a People's History of the United States: Second Edition | Edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove | Seven Stories Press | 9781583229163 | November 2009 | $22.95 | Trade Paper

Consortium Congratulates Herta Müller, Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature!

The Passport | Herta Müller;Translated by Martin Chalmers | Serpent's Tail | 9781852421397 | $12.95 | Trade Paper

Children of Ceausescu | Essay by Herta Müller; Photographs by Kent Klich | Umbrage Editions | 9781884167102 | $40.00 | Trade Cloth

From Herta Müller's Nobel lecture:

"Still, what can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. The mouth is skipped over. I talked a great deal during the dictatorship, mostly because I decided not to blow the trumpet. Usually my talking led to excruciating consequences. But the writing began in silence, there on the stairs, where I had to come to terms with more than could be said. What was happening could no longer be expressed in speech. . . . Nothing but the whirl of words could grasp my condition. It spelled out what the mouth could not pronounce. I chased after the events, caught up in the words and their devilish circling, until something emerged I had never known before."

Click here to read the full lecture.

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